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From: David Fontaine
Subject: Re: Mesh2 Potential on Density - Novel Triple Decker Organometallic Sandwich Compound
Date: 6 Aug 2002 00:03:40
Message: <3D4F4C10.5070709@faricy.net>
Peter Popov wrote:
 >
 > Actually, a picture *can* contain a virus. I've seen a .jpg that can
 >  be opened by ACDSee and PhotoShop, which is also an .exe which
 > Windows starts happily. NAV identified it as some Russian virus.

Exactly.  You *could* make a .jpg and fill the image data with
executable code, but as long as the extension (and MIME type on the
'net) is for an image file, you *should* have a hard time getting the
code to execute.  Unless you're using IE.


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